Sam Rivera
Designer, Rivera Studio
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Digital business card that people save in one tap
A contact page with your photo, links and a Save contact button, behind a QR code you print once and keep up to date.
A digital business card is a small hosted page with your name, role, phone, e-mail and links, opened by a QR code or a short link. The visitor taps Save contact and your details land in their phone. Change your number or job later, and every card you already handed out shows the new version.
Handed over once, saved for good
Your card's code opens your page. One tap on Save contact puts you in their phone.
Try the Save contact button
This is what a scanner sees after opening a hosted contact card. The button downloads a real contact file, so you can try it on your own phone.
Example details only. Your card shows your own name, links and photo.
How to make a digital business card
Enter the details you want people to keep
Name, job title, company, one phone number, one e-mail and the links that matter: portfolio, booking page or a social profile.
Choose editable
An editable code opens your hosted card through a short link. A fixed code holds the contact itself and cannot change later, which suits a card you reprint anyway.
Check the Save contact button on your phone
Scan the preview, tap Save contact and look at the result in your contacts app before you print anything.
Print the code, share the link
Put the code on paper cards, name badges and your e-mail signature. The same card opens from all of them, so one change updates every copy.
Fixed contact code or digital card?
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Fixed
A fixed code carries the contact file inside the square. It is free, works offline and never depends on us, but what you print is final. Good for a short print run with details that will not change.
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Editable Recommended here
A digital card is an editable code that opens your hosted page. You can update it any time, add a photo and see how many people scanned. It needs a plan, a pass or the trial, and it stops if you stop paying.
Why a hosted card beats a printed contact
It survives a job change
New title, new number, new company: edit the page and the cards in other people's wallets point at the new details on the next scan.
It holds more than a square can
A photo, a short bio and several links would make a printed code too dense. On a hosted page they cost nothing in code size.
The code stays small and easy to scan
An editable code carries only a short link, so it has fewer squares and reads well even at card size.
You see whether it gets used
Scan counts show whether the cards you hand out at an event get opened, so you know which are worth reprinting.
Where the card's code goes
- Paper business cards
- About 2 cm or 0.8 inch on the back of the card is enough for a short link. Keep a white margin around it.
- Name badges and lanyards
- Print the code at 3 cm or larger so people can scan it from arm's length at a stand.
- E-mail signatures and slides
- Use the short link as text and the code as a small image. Both open the same card.
Questions
Before you print
- Is it free?
- Fixed codes are free: make as many as you like, download a PNG with no sign-up, and get every other format and print files with a free account. Editable codes come with a plan, a pass, Keep-alive or the 14-day trial.
- Can I change the link after printing?
- Yes, with an editable code. It holds a short link you control, so you can point the printed code somewhere new any time, and the next scan opens the new page. A fixed code keeps the link it was made with.
- Can I use my own domain?
- Yes. A custom domain is included on passes, from Starter, and during the trial. Starter covers one subdomain, for example go.yourbrand.com, and apex domains start on Pro.
- What happens if I stop paying?
- Editable codes work to the end of your paid period, and after a failed payment every code keeps working for 14 days. Turn codes back on within 12 months. Fixed codes keep working as long as their links do.
What is a digital business card?
A hosted contact page with your details and a Save contact button, opened by a QR code or a short link. It replaces typing your name and number into a phone with one scan and one tap.
Do people need an app to save my card?
No. The phone's camera opens the page, and the Save contact button hands a standard contact file to the phone's own contacts app on iPhone and Android.
Can I change my details after printing?
Yes, that is the point of the hosted card. Edit the page in the app and the printed code shows the new details on the next scan, as long as your plan, pass or trial is active.
What does a digital business card cost?
Starter is $9 a month for 50 editable codes, and a one-time pass starts at $12 for 3 months and never renews. The 14-day trial needs no card.
What happens to my cards if I stop paying?
Editable codes stop redirecting when the plan or pass ends. You can reactivate within 12 months with no fee and the same printed code works again.
Is a fixed contact code still free?
Yes. A fixed vCard code with your details inside downloads free in SVG, PNG, JPG, WebP, PDF and EPS, without an account and without a watermark. It just cannot change after printing.
Hand out a card that keeps itself current
Enter your details, choose editable and try the hosted card free for 14 days.